What ethics means to me Describe ethics in your own words. Some many thoughts come to mind, because the word ethics can mean so many different things to different people. However, in my description it is ones belief that they believe what they perceive whet they think is right and wrong. Living one’s life to do what you think is right to be a good person overall. Now the question arises do I believe human beings have an ethical or moral obligation to look after the welfare of other life forms? To an extent, we tend to go overboard with what we believe is right or wrong whether it comes to the human race or another life form. I believe that we share this planet with other living and breathing creatures, and that it is our responsibility to look out for ourselves (as the human race). We
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We also read about philosophers and their viewpoint on the subject matter. There were numerous of different views it was hard to pinpoint which I agreed most with, because I agreed with a little bit of everything.
From our reading we had to do for our assignment my views are more along the lines of Aristotle. One of the lines in our readings that stood out to me and it goes as followed: “Among [living] things which have been generated, plants are for the sake of animals, and animals [except men] are for the sake of men” pg. 47
This one line from Aristotle means every being has an important role that they play. Aristotle stated plants are for animals, animals are for us for food and clothing. Not to abuse them or to kill as many animals as we want in order to eat and to put clothes on our backs. To utilize the necessary amount of anything that we need in order to survive and not abuse it. To be blatantly honest we have abused every creature and every walk of life time and time again. It seems to be an continuous cycle of
We also read about philosophers and their viewpoint on the subject matter. There were numerous of different views it was hard to pinpoint which I agreed most with, because I agreed with a little bit of everything.
From our reading we had to do for our assignment my views are more along the lines of Aristotle. One of the lines in our readings that stood out to me and it goes as followed: “Among [living] things which have been generated, plants are for the sake of animals, and animals [except men] are for the sake of men” pg. 47
This one line from Aristotle means every being has an important role that they play. Aristotle stated plants are for animals, animals are for us for food and clothing. Not to abuse them or to kill as many animals as we want in order to eat and to put clothes on our backs. To utilize the necessary amount of anything that we need in order to survive and not abuse it. To be blatantly honest we have abused every creature and every walk of life time and time again. It seems to be an continuous cycle of